WELCOME to SemDial 2017!

The 21st Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial 2017 – SaarDial) will be held on August 15-17…

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COMMITTEES

TECHNICAL PROGRAMME CHAIRS: Volha Petukhova, Spoken Language Systems Group, Saarland University Ye Tian, Laboratoire de linguistique formelle, Université Paris Diderot…

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Announcements

  • SemDial 2017 (SAARdial) proceedings are available online! SAARdial papers are ISCA archived

     

     

    Important announcement
  •   Many thanks to all participants for their contributions!

     

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Important Dates & Programme

  • Paper Submission Deadline

    08 May 2017 (23:59 GMT )   Extended due to 15 May (23: 59 GMT)

  • Paper Notification

    9 June 2017 16 June 2017

  • Demo/Poster paper submission

    23rd June 2017

  • Demo/Poster notification

    Friday, 07 July 2017

  • Final Paper Submission Deadline

    14 July 2017

  • Workshop Dates

    Tuesday, 15 August 2017 to Thursday, 17 August 2017

  • Day 1

    Tuesday 15th August 2017
    SIGDIAL SemDial
    08:00 Registration
    08:45 Opening: Welcome and Conferences Overview
    09:00 Keynote Speaker: Oliver Lemon
    10:00 Coffee Break
    10:30 Oral Session 1 Oral Session 1
    11:45 Lunch
    13:00 Joint Special Session on Negotiation Dialog
    15:00 Coffee Break
    15:30 Joint Poster Session
    SIGDIAL Posters SemDial Posters
    17:00 Sponsor Session
    17:45 Break
    18:15 Welcome Reception
  • Day 2
    Wednesday 16th August 2017
    SIGDIAL SemDial
    09:00 Keynote Speaker: Elisabeth André
    10:00 Coffee Break
    10:30 Oral Session 2 Oral Session 2
    11:45 Lunch
    13:00 Special Session: Natural Language Generation for Dialogue Systems Oral Session 3
    15:00 Coffee Break
    15:30 Joint Poster/Demo Session
    SIGDIAL Posters SemDial Posters
    SIGDIAL Demos SemDial Demos
    17:30 Break
    17:40 Bus to Voelklingen
    18:25 Voelklingen Huette Excursion
    20:15 Dinner
  • Day 3
    Thursday 17th August 2017
    SIGDIAL SemDial
    09:00 Keynote Speaker: Andrew Kehler
    10:00 Coffee Break
    10:30 Oral Session 3 Oral Session 4
    11:45 Lunch
    13:00 Special
    Session: Second WOCHAT Special Session on Chatbots and
    Conversational Agents (WOCHAT-SS)
    15:00 Coffee Break
    15:30 Oral Session 4 SemDial Business Meeting
    16:00 SemDial Closing
    16:50 Break
    17:00 SIGDIAL Business Meeting
    17:40 SIGDIAL Best Paper Awards
    SIGDIAL Closing
    18:10 End of conference